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title: Hammerhead sharks have a wide flat head with an eye at each end, whi… — Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hammerhead sharks have a wide flat head with an eye at each end, which spreads their senses for a better view and more electric sensors, and they sometimes pin stingrays down with it. Who acts: Hammerhead sharks, wide flat head, sharks. A sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish
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# Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 8

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Hammerhead sharks have a wide flat head with an eye at each end, which spreads their senses for a better view and more electric sensors, and they sometimes pin stingrays down with it.

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**Who acts:** Hammerhead sharks, wide flat head, sharks · **What happens:** have, spread, pin down, sense · **To what, where:** wide flat head, senses, stingrays

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hammerhead sharks, wide flat head, sharks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds.lesson:8
# text = Hammerhead sharks have a wide flat head with an eye at each end, which spreads their senses for a better view and more electric sensors, and they sometimes pin stingrays down with it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3
1	Hammerhead	hammerhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	sharks	shark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
6	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	senses	sense	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	amod	_	_
22	view	view	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
25	electric	electric	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	sensors	sensor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	advmod	_	_
31	pin	pin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	stingrays	stingray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	down	down	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Hammerhead sharks | a wide flat head |  |  |  | with a eye at each end | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 2 | **spread** | present | a wide flat head | sharks's senses |  |  |  | for a better view and more electric sensors | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sense=Theme |
| 3 | **pin down** | present | sharks *= shark* | stingrays |  |  | with end | down, sometimes *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stingray=Patient with it=Instrument |
| 4 | **sense** |  | sharks *= shark* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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